1. Why had liberalism and nationalism grown in importance by 1848?
To understand the Revolutions of 1848 it is necessary to go further back in time to the end of the 18th Century; it was the events and new thinking and discoveries at this time that led to new ideas that were to dominate the next century and beyond. The woman in the image above symbolises 'liberty' leading the revolutionary forces forward Starter In pairs, discuss what you know about what society in Europe was like...